close是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 关； 结束a. /ad. 近的(地) ； 紧密的(地)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passage of the searching party gives ground,—one is almost tempted to say, excuse,—for a close and careful description of each country and of its inhabitants, step by step.
-- He commenced by a close inspection of the outside.
-- and pressed close to his sister.
-- By dint of close economy, combined with tact and prudence, she managed to support and educate him, working day and night, denying herself everything, that she might give him all he needed, watching over him and caring for him like a mother.
-- But, notwithstanding McNabbs's assurance, Lady Helena passed the night in great anxiety, and could not close her eyes.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the revellers rode close together, for a great fear was on them, but they still followed over the moor, though each, had he been alone, would have been right glad to have turned his horse's head.
-- 'And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connec-tion that the one is extracted out of the other.
-- The total value of the estate was close on to a million.'
-- 'I am Sir Henry's friend, and his welfare is a very close concern of mine.
-- 'We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Close to an estate of Totski's, in one of the central provinces of Russia, there lived, at that time, a poor gentleman whose estate was of the wretchedest description.
-- One was that Nastasia had entered into close and secret relations with the Epanchin girls a most unlikely rumour; another was that Nastasia had long satisfied herself of the fact that Gania was merely marrying her for money, and that his nature was gloomy and greedy, impatient and self-ish, to an extraordinary degree; and that although he had been keen enough in his desire to achieve a conquest before, yet since the two friends had agreed to exploit his passion for their own purposes, it was clear enough that he had begun to consider the whole thing a nuisance and a nightmare.
-- Besides these three rooms there was another small one at the end of the pas-sage, close to the kitchen, which was allotted to General Ivolgin, the nominal master of the house, who slept on a wide sofa, and was obliged to pass into and out of his room through the kitchen, and up or down the back stairs.
-- These consisted of a 'salon,' which became the dining-room when required; a drawing-room, which was only a drawing-room in the morning, and became Gania's study in the evening, and his bedroom at night; and lastly Nina Alexandrovna's and Varvara's bedroom, a small, close chamber which they shared together.
-- cried General Ivolgin, suddenly and angrily, coming close up to Rogojin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not as yet laid a hand upon his ship, for he was grieved and sorry; so she went close up to him and said, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way?
-- They were gathered in as-sembly, old and young, at Priam's gates, and Iris came close up to Priam, speaking with the voice of Priam's son Polites, who, being fleet of foot, was stationed as watchman for the Trojans on the tomb of old Aesyetes, to look out for any sal-ly of the Achaeans.
-- When they were close up with one another, Alexan-drus came forward as champion on the Trojan side.
-- Iris then came close up to her and said, 'Come hither, child, and see the strange doings of the Trojans and Achaeans.
-- She found him standing among the stalwart heroes who had followed him from the banks of the Aesopus, so she went close up to him and said, 'Brave son of Lycaon, will you do as I tell you?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He worked with the lamp close to him, and the green shade threw a brilliant light upon his hands, and upon the frame and wheels, and left the rest of the room shadowy.
-- "If 'e en't there," he said, "'is close are.
-- She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, was surprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they were no sooner in than they heard the door close with a sharp bang.
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